I have a HP Pavilon 752n running XP. Their was a bad volume the other day and it would no longer boot up, so I did the system recovery.  The system has
two hard disks. (Or one which is divided? not SURE, I'm clueless here.)  C: which has 52GB of space and the D:
(recovery Drive) which has 6GB of space. Currently
it's running on the recovery drive so obviously I'm
running out of space.

I know C has been formatted because there is an
enormous amount of freespace (much more than before
the recovery).  So how do I get it to boot off just
the C: drive so I can have more space.

The harddrive brand and model is Maxtor 4D060H3 if that helps.

Am I being totally ignorant? I thought the recovery
thing was pretty straight forward but now I'm really
confused.

I would greatly appreciate any advice you can give me. I'm lost!You have 2 partitions on 1 drive.
You are running on c drive.
That doesn't really help. Why is it telling me that I don't have enough memory and it's SUCKING all the memory out of the recovery disk and none from the normal one?What tells you that you don't have enough memory?Several programs. Works, foxfire... when I try to preform a task  (for example.. copying some text to Works processor) says can't preform action because not enough memory. I have no additional software loaded on my system since the recovery.

When I looked at the drive. almost all the space on the recovery is taken. How do I get it to use the space on the other partitian?Right click on 'My Computer' and select 'Properties'.
How much RAM does it show?504 MBRe-start in safe mode & see if you can copy stuff then.It let me copy that time. But I was unable to access the net, so I couldn't  copy the exact same info as before.  But I didn't get a memory message when I went to paste it.Run both of these free scans.

Free online virus scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan.htm
Free online spyware scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/spyxposer/com/spyxposer_principal.htm

It might be the virus that sucked my memory out!  tracyg.......... It sounds like you have one hard drive ....as Fed has ALREADY suggested ..... It is a 60 gb drive and it contains a partition .... so you see two drives .......drive C: is 52 gb and drive D: is approx 6gb.
I think what has happened is you have formatted C: drive and have removed the operating system and everything else that was on there . What you must do is copy the contents of drive D onto drive C ........
Right now you have everything trying to run on 6gb of disk space .
Hope this is of some help.

dl65  
The scans came BACK negative for both.  As for copying the stuff over is it really that simple? Do I just manually drag everything over or is there something else I should do.


And yes, I reformatted the drive and it was wiped clean. Since, it's only putting stuff on the D: drive.I'll sit on the fence with this for a bit DL65, hopefully I'll learn some stuff.  
I've always wondered exactly what system recovery did.Either way Fed your help was much appreciated. If you hadn't started answering me when you did, I probably wouldn't have any hair left in my head.At least you have no viruses.